From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Using the new channel icons - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Using the new channel icons
In this exercise, I'll show you a couple of additional ways to save selections as alpha channels inside Photoshop, both of which I find to be more convenient than choosing the Save Selection command. I'm still working along inside the image called toolman.jpg. I have not saved a catch-up file for you this time around, the reason being that you and I are going to save this image along with its alpha channels in the very next exercise. Now that we've selected the goggles, the next trick is to select the areas that will represent the rays coming out of those goggles. So we'll start things off, once again with the Quick Selection tool. Go ahead and drag inside that first goggle like so, and I'm also going to zoom in, so I can better see what I'm doing here. And next, I'll switch back to my Rectangular Marquee tool, which you can get by pressing the M key, and then go ahead and press the Shift key. What I recommend you do is align your cursor with the bottom of the animated selection…
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The origins of the alpha channel3m 40s
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How a mask works7m 10s
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Making an alpha channel4m 2s
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Using the new channel icons6m 27s
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Saving an image with alpha channels4m 23s
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Loading a selection from a channel4m 7s
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Putting a mask into play3m 55s
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Loading a selection from a layer4m 27s
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Loading a selection from another image4m 36s
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The alpha channel is home to the mask1m 40s
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